June 29th -- weight yesterday 220.0; this morning 119.6 -- This is looking like progress.

I haven't been exercising. Used having a guest as my excuse but that wasn't valid. She wasn't even staying in the house and didn't come over early in the mornings which is when I am supposed to exercise. It is so easy to get out of exercising and so hard to establish the habit. Tomorrow morning I have got to start again.

For a couple of days, almost by accident, I didn't eat for most of the day. That flies in the face of conventional wisdom which says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and must not be skipped -- and the belief that we really should eat 6 small meals daily. I did that when I was on a program a couple of years ago and I lost 50 pounds. But I am now 70ish pounds heavier than when I started that program. It claimed not to be a diet but for me it was and when the intensive "boot camp" period was over, I didn't eat to maintain the loss obviously! So back to my ignoring conventional wisdom. For 2 days I wasn't hungry for breakfast and didn't eat it. One of those days I enjoyed a Greek yogurt (chobani is the brand that I like) in the early to mid-afternoon. Then I had a dinner at night. My weight seems to have settled in just under 220 in response to that. I am drinking water like a fish too of course. I read somewhere recently that you should drink a quart of water for every 50 pounds of water weight. Following that recommendation, I would drink about a gallon +16 ounces. I'm coming close! It was interesting to see that some days I just don't seem to crave food so much. Yesterday I had a Greek yogurt about 11:00 and was quite hungry a couple of hours later so I had some left-over of a vegetarian dinner. I realized later that I could have been satisfied with about half of what I ate. This didn't induce guilt but was an interesting observation. Clearly I need to tune in to eating just to stop the hunger. I think that would lead to my eating what most people think is sufficient rather than my current gluttonous style.

One conclusion I'm considering in the pursuit of my own habits for health, is that I will do well to be very aware of my needs on any given day rather than trying to be bound by rules -- even of my own creation. So for a couple of days I had a yogurt in the afternoon and then dinner. This morning I had a breakfast and ate lunch out (late). I will either skip dinner or eat very lightly. I think over time I can get pretty good at knowing how much to eat and when.

Activity goals: continue drinking in excess of a gallon of water daily and re-start my fledgling exercise program. Continue to focus on how much to eat and when.